Powell v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that trial counsel was not deficient in failing to object to the prosecutor’s “highly improper” remarks about the decision to charge the defendant because, under the circumstances, “a defense lawyer 55 might reasonably conclude that little would be gained by an objection”
• even if failure to object to an improper closing argument was deficient performance, defendant did not show prejudice
• “[a] person who does not directly commit a crime may be convicted upon proof that a crime was committed and that person was a party to it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

64 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-03-16· cited 122×
• DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 65×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-06-10· cited 64×
• Ellington v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-11-19· cited 61×
• Hartsfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-03-28· cited 52×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-18· cited 49×
• Threatt v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-09-09· cited 42×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-02-18· cited 38×
• Rivera v. the State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-06-30· cited 35×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-09-12· cited 32×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-06· cited 30×
• Yarn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-03-11· cited 29×
• Scoggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-12-19· cited 29×
• Mosley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-04-04· cited 25×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-09-22· cited 22×
• McDuffie v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-11-16· cited 21×
• Calloway v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-02-05· cited 18×
• Zayas v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2024-05-29· cited 18×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2014-01-27· cited 17×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Kimmelman v. Morrison
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 3,502×
• Malcolm v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-09-20· cited 1,049×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-04-24· cited 130×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 81×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 54×
• Alexander v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1993-10-04· cited 47×
• Walsh v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-05-11· cited 39×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-05-17· cited 33×
• Humphrey v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 30×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-02-26· cited 27×
• Keen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-10-05· cited 24×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-01-08· cited 21×
• Shields v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-02-14· cited 20×
• Bowens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1899-03-16· cited 20×
• Simpson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-09-11· cited 17×
• Contreras v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-15· cited 17×